Sunday, July 22, 2012

Arbitrary Day Experience

If you didn't already know I'm a huge Redditor (A fanatic of Reddit.com), I spend endless empty hours browsing the website.  A couple months ago I saw a post on their front page labeled "Arbitrary Day 2012". As a relatively new member I had no clue what it was all about.  I opened the link and realized it was a huge international gift exchange, I was immediately intrigued. I took the couple minutes it took to register, added my interests and hobbies etc, so my match would know a little about me.

A couple months pass, I had almost forgotten that I had signed up for it, I received and email stating that my Arbitrary Day match was ready. My match was a 20 year old male from Massachusetts.  Now to find a gift for him, which I thought would be kinda easy, but his "about me" section only said he's into everything....yeah that narrows it down.  After a couple messages exchanged I found out a little more about him, he's a big gamer, likes to smoke a lot of pot and into cool/funny tshirts.  I really just wanted to send him some weed, because it seemed he really liked it...but I didn't know how legal that would be Ha.   After spending quit a bit of time looking for a decent present I settled with some Super Mario figurines, a Super Mario lanyard  and a Anchor Man tshirt. (I wish I would of taken a pic, but fuck I didn't)  I ship it off, a couple days later I get a message saying that he received it and really liked it, also he invited me for a reddit smoke out if I'm ever in the area!


Now I'm just waiting for my match to send me mine, keep in mind it's not the same person I sent mine too. A couple days after I receive my package.....drum rrrrrooolllllll!!!  I open the package, I take it out, I'm holding it in my hands, I never in a thousand years thought it would be this, I'm kinda confused, but again, it's genius! I set it down, I see a switch, I turn it on. Its a light-up stained glass frog!  Its funny, I have a blog explaining my "power" animal and yeah it's a frog!  It's so far from what I expected but I like it, it suits me well. I quickly message the sender thanking them, I upload it to the reddit gift site, It was voted one of Reddit Gift Favorites!  Anyways hit the link (Argh Frog!) to check it out!

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